"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

To avoid this outcome, many mailing-lists therefore allow a considerable breadth of opinion to be expressed, and supplement the list itself with Web sites offering FAQs, past list issues, and search facilities for participants looking for particular information. Obviously, there are also marked differences between individual mailing-lists: while Elephant Talk, despite its list of taboo topics, has for a long time also been a forum for occasionally harsh criticism of King Crimson and its members (prompting Robert Fripp to comment "I don't see how anyone would want to read it all for fun"), the Yes list Notes from the Edge is generally seen as taking a fairly positive view of the band's affairs, especially in comparison with the far more critical newsgroup alt.music.yes. (Notably, there is no comparable King Crimson newsgroup, a fact for which the openness of ET may be an explanation.)	Bit 48
Such a division of Yes fans into 'positivists' and 'realists' also leads back to a discussion of the sub-groups that emerge from the newsgroups. These factions (to use the description commonly employed in a.m.y) frequently retrace the sub-genre divisions -- or, in the case of Yes, distinctions into fans of particular band lineups and eras -- extant in the general Prog subculture. As with these subcultural subdivisions, however, factionalisation should not necessarily be seen as a threat to the Prog community as such: factions may overlap, and participants' factional stances in discussion may only be limited to particular threads or newsgroups -- above all, factionalisation only once again points out the heterogeneous nature of Prog.²⁴ Most of all, perhaps, such divisions show that the Progressive Rock online community has grown large enough to support more elaborate internal structures -- these will only become a threat to the subculture if the strength of subcultural distinctions grows greater than the hold of the overarching subcultural community structures.	Bit 49

To avoid this outcome, many mailing-lists therefore allow a considerable breadth of opinion to be expressed, and supplement the list itself with Web sites offering FAQs, past list issues, and search facilities for participants looking for particular information. Obviously, there are also marked differences between individual mailing-lists: while Elephant Talk, despite its list of taboo topics, has for a long time also been a forum for occasionally harsh criticism of King Crimson and its members (prompting Robert Fripp to comment "I don't see how anyone would want to read it all for fun"), the Yes list Notes from the Edge is generally seen as taking a fairly positive view of the band's affairs, especially in comparison with the far more critical newsgroup alt.music.yes. (Notably, there is no comparable King Crimson newsgroup, a fact for which the openness of ET may be an explanation.)

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Such a division of Yes fans into 'positivists' and 'realists' also leads back to a discussion of the sub-groups that emerge from the newsgroups. These factions (to use the description commonly employed in a.m.y) frequently retrace the sub-genre divisions -- or, in the case of Yes, distinctions into fans of particular band lineups and eras -- extant in the general Prog subculture. As with these subcultural subdivisions, however, factionalisation should not necessarily be seen as a threat to the Prog community as such: factions may overlap, and participants' factional stances in discussion may only be limited to particular threads or newsgroups -- above all, factionalisation only once again points out the heterogeneous nature of Prog.²⁴ Most of all, perhaps, such divisions show that the Progressive Rock online community has grown large enough to support more elaborate internal structures -- these will only become a threat to the subculture if the strength of subcultural distinctions grows greater than the hold of the overarching subcultural community structures.

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